Friday, November 10, 2006

The REAL 'Best of Abbotsford/Mission'

A local paper here, which shall not be named here in order to sound like I'm being responsible or something, gives out 'Readers' Choice' Awards regularly to local businesses and the 5 or so regular readers fill out ballots and send them in. (An aside - this paper was on strike a while back and when they finally came back in print after a whole summer of no paper, I said to my father-in-law, 'Well, they're back!"
He just looked puzzled and said, 'Where did they go?'
"They went on strike."
"Oh, I didn't notice.")
Now, these readers are kinda weird in their tastes. Some of the regular winners make sense and I agree with, but SOME are just ridiculous.

Then comes THE POST (No website yet - it's THAT new!) A new paper trying to make its way in town. I'm not sure about the 'twin cities' thing and if that'll catch on, but who knows? Probably the only paper that will actually tell it like it is, it looks like. I notice that the POST has none of those annoyingly wasteful Plan A ads. This is good, because the ad-campaign itself could end up defeating the plan due to the high amount of tax dollars being spent wastefully by city hall to keep people from actually thinking that there is more than one option to vote for. But I digress from the news of major importance! It actually has a restaurant critic, anonymous of course, that toodles around town to find out what's really good. Now she has only written twice, but both sound great. Want a good breakfast? Don't listen to readers' choice - go to Rivers Restaurant. This week she reviewed Wee Chippie in Mission which actually has deep fried Mars bars on the menu. Hmmm...sounds interesting....
(Another aside: The Deep fried mars bar scored alot of hits on Google! Sounds terrible, awful and I gotta try one at least one time in my life!) Now I want the critic to actually find out the best Chinese food in Abbotsford, because the one that wins it every year must be bribing the paper-that-must-not-be-named, because it is not the best by a long shot. It's cheaper though, so maybe that must be the 5 readers actual criteria

1 comment:

RenaSherwood said...

Deep fried Mars Bars (remember, in Englnd, Mars bars are Milky Ways) is considered a delicacy. Remeber dipping french fries into milkshakes? Something like that. However, I think deep fried Bounty (Mounds) bars are much better! It's about a billion calories, so only eat on days you'll be gathering firewood.